Friends, this week The Arcade continues its look back on the past year with part two of our 2018 Year In Review. On this episode, we’ll focus our attention on some of the remaining big and big-ish stories that we’ve yet to have our say on from the year that was. Included in this are Billy Mitchell and his disqualification from the Twin Galaxies record books, Telltale Games abruptly closing their doors, Epic Games and Discord tackling Steam head-on, and Atari doing some strange things, just to name a few.

What was discussed:

Telltale Games Shuts Down Out Of Nowhere

Epic Games, Others, Look To Challenge Steam In Digital Game Store War

Retro Companies Up To Some Odd Things

Billy Mitchell, Twin Galaxies, & Disputed High Scores

Ubisoft Opens A Studio In Winnipeg

Hello Games Finally Starts To Fulfill The Potential Of No Man’s Sky

Sony Releases Own Attempt At Retro Mini-Console, It Flops

Microsoft Is Busy Buying Game Dev Studios

Sony Announces It’s Plan To Skip E3 2019

The Vatican Launches Pokémon Go-Like Game Where You Collect Catholic Saints

Dennis’ Nickname:

The man who shouldn’t be, but is always surprised by how outraged people become over clickbait